Micaela Piñero

Place: Province Of Buenos Aires

Born: 1990

Biography:

Micaela Piñero is an Argentine artist born in the Province of Buenos Aires in 1990. She currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the National University of La Plata and a Master's degree in Visual Arts and Education from the University of Barcelona. In 2001, she began her training in painting with Vasily Tretiakov and later studied jewelry with Héctor Ruíz and Juan Carlos Pallarols in 2015. She has participated in various art clinics with Leila Tschopp, Pablo Siquier, Juliana Iriart, and Alejandra Aguado. Her project 'Take Me to See the Ocean' was selected for the individual projects call of the Young Art Biennial of Buenos Aires 2019 at CCRecoleta. She received a scholarship from the Center for Artistic Research in 2017 and a mobility grant from the Ministry of Culture of the Nation in 2019. She won the Radar Literature Prize in both 2017 and 2018. Micaela Piñero has participated in collective exhibitions and poetry readings in various countries including Argentina, Spain, Chile, the United States, Mexico, and Germany. She founded the poetry collective Las Pibas, where she published as an author and editor of fanzines and booklets between 2011 and 2018. Her poems have been published and translated in several compilations across different countries. In 2018, she published her poetry book 'University of Violence' through Mansalva Publishing. In 2019, she had her first solo exhibition titled 'I Spent All These Years Building a Shelter,' curated by Jimena Ferreiro.